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Because thee are too many of them and people are just shooting them for fun!
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Why did the policy of treating the great plains as a huge reservation changes?
White settlers began wanting the land on the plains
How did the white settlers and the Plains Indians have different views over the use of the buffalo?
Native Americans used buffalo for food and they used their skin for clothing. The bones of buffalo were used for tools and weapons. American settlers wanted only to sell the buffalo hide since they were in great demand.
What white technology limited the movement of buffalo and interferes with the Plains Indian traditional way of life?
In two words, barbed-wire fences.
What Native American hunt buffalo?
The buffalo were located in the central plains. At one time there were 30 million buffalo on the plains and the Native American tribes living on the plains would hunt them on foot. Originally there were no horses in North America until the Spanish brought them, so they needed to hunt them by setting fire to the grasses and using animal pelts to hide their scent they would sneak up on the herd. The buffalo were basically farmed and when killed every part was used. Nothing was wasted. When the white man came to the plains and built the railroad he slaughtered the buffalo because it was known it was a lifeline for the tribes. Mountains of buffalo were killed just to kill and by the late 1800's there were only 17,000 left from the 30 million.
Why did the white settlers in the great plains believe the American Indians had forfeited their rights to the land?
because indians are pussys
Which animal provided food shelter clothing for the American Indians on the great plains?
The illusive white buffalo
Why did buffalo become nearly extincted?
The breeding grounds of the Buffalo was generally in the western plains of the US portion of North America. White hunters did great damage to buffalo herds. Natives used the buffalo as food and clothing. Native hunters were aided with the re-introduction of mustangs.
What does a white buffalo mean?
Depends on who you are what it means. To Native Americans plains tribes a white buffalo was a sacred animal. As it was tribes like the Dakota Sioux used the buffalo for food, clothing, worship, and anything else they could glean from the buffalo.
What is the Cheyenne known for?
The Cheyenne became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating to the Great Plains in the 18th century and figured prominently in the resistance by Plains Indians to white encroachment.
How native Americans respond to land lost due to white settlement of the great plains?
How native americans respond to land lost due to white settlement of the great plains?
How and why were native American lands threatened by newcomers?
The Native Americans of the great plains depended on the buffalo. They ate its meat and made their clothing and homes from its skins. White men's guns killed the buffalo depriving the Native Americans of food, clothing, and shelter. White men's cows ate the grass the buffalo needed. White men's fences prevented the buffalo from changing pastures. Thus, the white men made it impossible for the Native Americans to continue their relationship with the buffalo.
How did destruction of the buffalo herbs affect the plains indians' way of life?
The Plains Indian Tribes were completely dependent on the buffalo as their source of food, shelter, and clothing. When the white men began destroying the buffalo for sport, the Indians were forced to accept government policy and conform to life on the Indian Reservations.
What gives some mountain a white appearance?
great plains
How plains Indians lived?
its not "how do plains Indians live" its "how did plains Indians live"and the answer is they lived on the great plains in tepees(tipis) these were little tent like homes made from buffalo skinsome Indians had always lived there, and some were forced to move on to there when the white settlers came along.that's my answer!! feel free to critisize as i am not always right! but as far as i know what i have said THIS TIME is right not
What animal was raised in large numbers on the Great Plains by the white man?
Cattle and sheep are still raised in large numbers on the Great Plains.
Where are the chief airports in New York?
Albany, Buffalo, Islip, New York (2), Rochester, Syracuse, White Plains.
How did decline of buffalo effect native Americans?
The Native Americans of the Great Plains relied on the buffalo population for food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. As white settlers moved into the region, they shot and killed buffalo for sport and by 1890 there were fewer than 1000 buffalo left on the plain (65 million in 1800). Without their main source of food many Native Americans suffered
